as in imprisoned
to put in or as if in prison
if they catch you, they're going to lock you up and throw away the key!
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Moore previously served as the defense attorney for Louise and David Turpin, the California couple who abused and imprisoned their 13 children and dependent adults in a 'house of horrors' for years.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025 -
South America is buzzing with debates over whether Maduro should be exiled or imprisoned.—
Kristina Foltz,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Hong Kong — The judges in the trial of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai on Thursday retired to consider their verdict on three national security charges that could see the 77-year-old pro-democracy firebrand jailed for life.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
28 Aug. 2025
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Suffice it to say, the simple act of burning the flag was not what he would get arrested and jailed for.—
Isaac Saul,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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From January 2015 until August 2016, Cawthorn interned for Meadows.—
Danielle Battaglia,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Sep. 2025
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In fact, many of the technical experts working on eVTOL in the Bay Area either previously worked at or interned in the NASA or Army rotorcraft R&D groups at Moffett Field.—
Mike Hirschberg,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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So many good kids end up incarcerated as adults because no one shows them right from wrong, Miller told the Courier Journal.—
Maggie Menderski,
The Courier-Journal,
29 Aug. 2025
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More than 76% of those incarcerated in the state's prison system have a mental health or serious mental health illness, according to the DOC.—
Vanessa Swales,
jsonline.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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By 2018, Assad had control of Damascus and Aleppo, and the rebels were confined to a jihadist ministate in Idlib.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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The consequences aren’t confined to equity or fairness.—
Richard Fowler,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Locked (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locked%20%28up%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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